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  1. 12851Legal documentT-S NS 323.19

    There may be someone named Salmān al-Muḥaddith, but more likely this is referring to the name of a new (muḥdath) house, [Dār] Salmān. Goitein and Gershon Weiss believed this fragment to be a join with T-S 12.553 (which involves the same couple), but this is not certain (Goitein and Weiss did not know about BL OR 12299.12 + T-S 8.123 or about the join T-S 12.502 + T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553.)

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    1. [ ] אלעזר הנק[רא מנצור ] בן [מרור] יפת הזקן הנקרא חסן נע דידיע
    2. [ ]סתהם אלמדעאה סת אלגמיע בת מרור עובדיה הזקן
    3. [ ] אבו נצר אלעטאר הידוע בן זביבא…

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  2. 12852Legal documentT-S NS 342.98 + T-S NS 342.89

    Regarding a partnership in a tax farm, on all of the proceeds from silk coming into the Ṣināʿa (the main port of Fustat), from the Jazīra, from the near [and the far Ṣaʿīds], from al-Sharqiyya and al-Gharbiyya, and by river and by land. The "new customs tax on the Ṣināʿa" is excluded. The enormous sum of 3,565 (dinars) is mentioned in the margin.

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  3. 12853Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 933

    This document supports that dating and suggests that the synagogue was new (or renovated?) in 1491 CE. But see Yevr.-Arab.

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  4. 12854LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1510

    At one point the writer closed the main door and opened a new door onto an entrance hall (or alley? dihlīz) where a group of Qaraites live, including ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baṣīr, and Wahba al-Zayyāt and his son ʿAbdallāh.

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  5. 12855List or tableENA 4011.44

    A former agreement seems to have imposed monthly payments of 10 dinars upon the co-proprietor, to settle his debt. The new computation stretches over a period of nine years, 1149-1158 - years 1461, 1465, 1466 sel. (1149-50, 1154, 1155), and years (5)50, (5)51, (5)52, (5)53 AH (1155-1158 CE).

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    1. ולה ען חכר תמן אלדאר אלדי [
    2. אלמערופה בדאר הבה אלאב[זארי]
    3. אולהא כסלו אתסא ואכר[הא
    4. דרהם סוא אל[
    5. ען שנת א[ ]
    6. ועליה מן בדאיה שנת את[ ]
  6.  To his credit, for ḥikr for three years, namely the years [5]51, 5[52], and [5]53, 

  7.  owed to him by them, 30 dir. 

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  9. 12856LetterMIAC 238

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 55). An original scan and translation of the letter is available in Al-Janiza wa-l-maʿābid al-Yahūdiyya fī Miṣr (pp. 203-207).

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  10. 12857Legal documentT-S 6J9.1

    The sale is for a property in New Cairo in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood. The price is 55 dinars, of which 33 dinars are paid at the time of sale.

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  11. 12858LetterT-S 10J10.3 + T-S Ar.50.84

    The writer of the letter asks other relatives to hurry and collect incriminating evidence again the newcomer so that the ban can be declared. Additionally mentions Ibn Jarrāḥ, Ibn al-Jazzār; the house of a wedding; the late Rabbenu רפיא(?).

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    1. תקדמת כתבי אליכם אטאל אללה ב|קאכם וגמע בכם קריב יום כרוג
    2. בן גראח אבו בכר בכתבי אליכם ו . | . . שהאדאת עלי בן אלגזאר . . . . . .
    3. ובמא גרא תם גר…

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  12. 12859LetterT-S 12.306

    The congregants shouted at him that he had to pray out loud and with 'cantorship' (אלחזאנה) in the 'new' style. Moshe, however, had forgotten how to do this (performance anxiety?)

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [
    2. אמליה בדמעתי . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [
    3. . . תה אכרר אב . . . . . . וכתוב ד…

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  13. 12860Legal documentT-S K25.240.42

    It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid to the supervisor of inheritances (nāẓir al-mawārīth) in New Cairo, in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals to Avraham Maimonides.

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  14. 12861List or tableT-S NS J293a + T-S NS J293b + T-S NS J293c + T-S NS J293d

    Goitein assembled these fragments together while working on the New Series in the Taylor Schechter Collection. The type, form, and state of preservation of the paper and the arrangement of the script on it leave little doubt, however, that they form parts of one document.

    a - verso Fragment 1 right side IV

    1. {בם}
    2. ..ג אבן זגלי ם גוכאניה
    3. אמראת אברהם ם גוכאניה

    אלקשׁאשׁי

    1. אמראת אלגר ם גוכאני'

    אלחפאר

    1. אמראת אלת.[..] גוכאני…

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  15. 12862List or tableAIU IX.B.27

    Dowry list for Hannah bt. Yakov Bibas. This document is undated but specifically titled as a "nota del ashugar" (l.1r) or "note of dowry" in …

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  16. 12863LetterBL OR 8660.1

    Letter from Bu Nasr b. Ibrahim to Abu l-Rabi' Sulayman ha-Kohen b. Abu Zikri Kohen, Fustat, the square of the perfumers. Bu Nasr is irked …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצלת כתב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם
    3. עזהא ונעמתהא ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאהא וכבת חסדתהא
    4. ואעדאהא     וקראתהא ופהמת מצמונהא וע…

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  17. 12864LetterBL OR 10578Q.10

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The writer worries about various family members: a woman whose brothers refuse to support her (r1-5); …

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    1. . . . לא] תסאל מא אנא פיה
    2. מן מקאסיתהם ואן עלם חאלהא
    3. יעמי ואן אכותהא מא דפעו להא
    4. כרובה בל קאלו להא נכרגו אלדי להא
    5. פי אלעמארה ואן בנ[ת?] אכוך ל…

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  18. 12865Legal documentBL OR 13153.4/1

    Four different documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Clockwise from upper left: (1) Thin vertical strip from the left side …

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  19. 12866Literary textBodl. MS Arab. c 56.31 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.32

    Two folios from the "Canon of Medicine" by Avicenna. The folios are from ch. 14 of his work on the functions of the liver. YU. …

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  20. 12867LetterBodl. MS heb. a 2/14

    Recto (with address on verso): Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose and calligraphic script (which deteriorates over the course of the letter) to Mevorakh b. David …

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  21. 12868Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/1

    Copy of a power of attorney in the name of David b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn Madīnī. Location: the document itself was drawn up in Fustat, …

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    1. נחן אלשהוד אלמסמון אספל הד'א אלכתאב חצר אלינא ר' דויד
    2. בר עמאר נ'ע' בן עזרון נ'ע' וקאל לנא והו פי צחה' עקלה ובדנה
    3. וגואז אמרה אשהדו עלי ואקנו מנ…

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    1. ....אנחנו, העדים החתומים למטה בכתב זה, (אומרים כי) בא אלינו ר' דויד
    2. בר עמאר נ"ע בן עזרון נ"ע ואמר לנו, והוא בריא בשכלו ובגופו
    3. ובגמר דעתו: היו …

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  22. 12869LetterBodl. MS Heb. c 13/5

    Family letter in Ladino. "To my mother-in-law in the place of my mother, after I and your daughter Rica kiss your hands: know how astonished …

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  23. 12870LetterENA 1822a.44 + ENA 1822a.45

    Business letter from 1094, addressed by Avraham b. Natan Av (former judge in Ramla and later Cairo) to Nahray b. Nissim, when the latter was …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. [כ]תאבי אטאל אללה בקא רבנו ואדאם
    3. עזה ותאיידה ועלאה וכבת אעדאה
    4. מן אלמסתקר בצור ושוקי לחצרה
    5. רבנו שדיד ואספי עלי אלבעד מנהא
    6. עטים ונדמי …

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  24. 12871LetterENA 3099.6

    Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …

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  25. 12872State documentENA 3751.5 + T-S 13.20 + T-S F13.1 + JRL B 5446 + ENA 4045.2 + T-S C2.209

    Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals …

    Lost Archive, p. 397

    their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials .... their extraction and expenditure... for the needs of calling for the construction of canals ...

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  26. 12873State documentENA 3924.5

    State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …

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  27. 12874LetterENA 4020.46 + ENA 2806.12

    India Book (IB) IV,80 (ח90). Letter by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Damascus (חדרך), to Yeshuʿa b. Moshe, in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1145/46 …

    IB IV,80 ב recto

    1. כח יעלצו / וישישו בשמחה בהתיחשם לשבט
    2. מושל תמימותם / למשפחותם / לבית את אשר
    3. עדיין המתפאר יתפאר בשמם / לסחור ולרקוח
    4. ממור דרור בשמם / …

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  28. 12875LetterENA NS 7.8

    Letter fragment (right part only) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: possibly 13th century or later, based on the use of the shorthand "אלממ." The writer asks the …

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  29. 12876LetterHalper 395

    Letter from Bū l-Munā b. ʿImrān al-ʿA[sqalā?]nī to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd al-Ṣārifī Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. The addressee may be …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאללה בקאך
    3. ואדאם תאידך ותמכינך וכבת אעדאך ען חאל
    4. סלאמה ונעמה גמע אללה שמלנא עלי אפצל אלאחואל
    5. ואת…

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  30. 12877List or tableJRL C 19

    Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of "מצרופ/expenses" on food items organized according to weeks of the liturgical calendar that are indicated by their respective parsha readings (i.e. …

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  31. 12878List or tableJRL C 22

    Lists in Judaeo-Arabic related to the household items and finances of Yiṣḥaq al-Yebdani[?] (recto) and Moshe Abzardil (verso). Based on the paleography and the latter's …

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  32. 12879List or tableJRL C 170

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing a variety of individuals and corresponding monetary sums in silver kuruş which helps to estimate the dating of the document as …

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  33. 12880LetterMoss. IV,74.1

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower piece). Mentions paying someone 10 dinars; [Abū] l-Ḥasan and Qalyūb; the sender being weary of something (קד קלת נהצתי …

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  34. 12881LetterMoss. VII,138.2

    Letter fragment from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's wife, in Fustat, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel, probably in Bahnasa (based on T-S 13J21.18). In …

    1. וצל כתאבך יא מולאי אטאל אללה] בקאך ואדאם תאיידך ונעמאך ומן חסן
    2. אלתופיק לא אכלאך וכאן לך וליא] פי גמיע אמורך פכאן אגל ואצל וצל ווארד
    3. ] תעטים לקדרה [[…

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  35. 12882LetterMoss. VII,162.3

    Letter fragment from a man to his wife. In Judaeo-Arabic. Partial translation by Joel Kraemer: "I have sworn an oath not to wash the clothes …

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  36. 12883State documentNLI 577.1/44

    Petition, probably from an actor of the state likely involved in the Majlis al-Ḥukm to a higher official or his subordinate. The petition is formatted …

    1. …وشواجرها

    2. عافية(؟) وانارها وبعض حيطانها وقصد المملوك ان

    3. يبـني الطبقة على ما كانت املاء فمنعه من ذلك الجيران

    4. ليس للطبقة المذكورة عالية عليهم و…

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  37. 12884Legal documentT-S 6J12.7

    Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The …

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  38. 12885LetterT-S 8.141

    Letter of introduction, signed by Shemuel b. Avraham, in an unknown location, on behalf of Yosef b. Ḥelbo, addressed to a Jewish community (לכבודכם, although …

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  39. 12886LetterT-S 8J16.27

    Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Fustat, to his cousin Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen, in a smaller town, in which the writer refers to the …

    1. כתבת הדה אלאחרף אלי מולאי אלחבר נט רחמ
    2. ענד כתרה שוקנא לכתאבה אד קד אנקטע ענא
    3. מדה ארגו יכון לכיר וכאן קד וצלני כתאב אכוך
    4. רבי חייא שצ מע יוסף אלסקלי ו…

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  40. 12887LetterT-S 8J23.5

    Letter sent from Fustat by a father to his son, settling business accounts with him. The handwriting is that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), …

    1. בש רח
    2. וצל כתאבך אללה לא יקטעה ומא קאם
    3. אלי מנה צורה ואעלם יא בני אן אמך מא
    4. תסאמח פי חק אחד ואנא קד עלם אללה
    5. ואלנאס ואמך אני אד לם אגור עלי רוחי
    6. מא גו…

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  41. 12888LetterT-S 8J27.12

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "my son." Dating: ca. early 13th century (Goitein's estimate, apparently based on identifying "majlis sayyidinā wa-majlis …

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    1. . . .] . . . . . אליד אלשריף [
    2. . . .] שנים רבות וממא אעלמך בה [אני מן
    3. יום] כרגת מן ענדכם מא וצלני כתאב ול[א . . 
    4. . . .] עגבי מן דלך ארגו שגל …

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  42. 12889LetterT-S 10J16.24

    Letter from Shemuʾel to his father, David Conforte, in Ladino, which was then reused for a draft of a halakhic treatise on divorce. (Information from …

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  43. 12890LetterT-S 12.381

    Letter from Shemuel Sidi to Moshe ha-Levi. Written on Friday, 1 Heshvan. The letter's origin and destination are unclear. See T-S 12.318 for another letter …

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    1. בעה׳ יום ששי ר״ח חשון
    2. החכם המרומם על כל מעלה ותהלה כמהר׳ משה הלוי נר׳
    3. אד״ס (?) אישטאס דוס ריגלאס אין קורטו לי סירה דיזירלי קומו קון
    4. עליקו איל…

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  44. 12891LetterT-S 13J23.2

    Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …

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    1. וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה

    2. גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמתה…

    recto

    1. הגיע מכתבך, אדוני החבר הנכבד. גדול, וכו', וקראתיו והודיתי לאלוהים.
    2. יתגדל שמו, על הידיעה שהכיל בדבר שלומך, וביקשתי ממנו שיתאיר לך אותו, והוא למ…

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  45. 12892Legal documentT-S 18J1.4

    Will in Hebrew, magnificently written. Location: unknown. Dated: Sunday, 18 Ḥeshvan 1318 Seleucid = 13 October 1006 CE. In which a rich man, Maṣliaḥ b. …

    1. מעשה שנכנסנו אנחנו העדים החתומים למטה באחד בשבת בשמונה עשר ירח
    2. מרחשון שנת אלף ושלש מאות ושמונה עשרה לשטרות אצל ר מצליח הזקן בן אל
    3. חסן הידוע בן אלצבא…

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  46. 12893LetterT-S 18J4.9

    Part of a poorly preserved letter, written with widely-spaced lines in an elegant square hand and ornate language, probably the work of a Palestinian gaʾon. …

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  47. 12894Paraliterary textT-S Ar.21.109

    Bifolium. One folio is a Judaeo-Arabic translation of Exodus 21:1-17, 27:20-28. The other folio is magical instructions in Arabic script. The first few lines of …

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  48. 12895LetterT-S Ar.38.109

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower part only). Dating: Maybe Ayyubid-era, based on typical names and titles, but this is a guess. The alifs and …

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  49. 12896LetterT-S AS 146.30

    Letter to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Neṭira. In Hebrew. In the handwriting of a certain Avraham ha-Kohen, who is known in the world of piyyuṭ …

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  50. 12897List or tableT-S AS 146.339

    Bifolio of communal accounts. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. Mainly a distribution list for clothing. The names are mostly crossed out and …

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  51. 12898LetterT-S AS 153.68 + T-S 6J11.13

    Fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century, based on handwriting. Apparently recounting a legal situation. Excerpts from T-S AS 153.68: "...the …

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  52. 12899Legal documentT-S AS 166.29

    Damaged legal deed, probably a settlement, in which a man (Manṣ[ūr]?) accepts a number of stipulations upon himself concerning a house and household goods. He …

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  53. 12900State documentT-S AS 183.282

    Recto: Official correspondence or petition. Mentions government finance (واموال الدواوين بالحضرة(؟) فدفع . . . الحال بذلك). Then discusses somebody's employing as kātib al-jaysh / …

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